Brain-skin axis

Within the Institute of Inflammation and Repair, the Brain-skin axis Unit is world leading in furthering an understanding of how skin disease produce stress e.g. the psychosocial disability consequent on psoriasis; and how stressful life events may trigger and/or exacerbate inflammatory skin disease.

The Unit is funded by the Medical Research Council, Psoriasis and Psoriatic Arthritis Alliance and Industry.